The map Jack Wetherall created for author Vivian French, depicting the Five Kingdoms described in her book series.

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Liza Jaipaul
Special to the Courier News and the Home News Tribune

It's not often that a fifth-grader writes to a well-known author and gets a personal reply. It's even less common when the author goes on to dedicate a book to that same fan.

Jack Wetherall of Lebanon Township, now in sixth grade, said he wrote to Vivian French, author of "The Tales from the Five Kingdoms" series, because he thinks the books "are really funny and interesting." He said he was trying to figure out "the places in the books and where they all go in relation to each other."

He didn't really expect a reply, but he got one. "She said she didn't have a map, and that she was thinking of making one, ...